This Kind Of Thing Could Kill Gnutella

[napho]

I see these on LimeWire too. PeerGuardian doesn't do anything to help.

[Malakai1911]

I'm sure the GDF will eventually get around to taking action.

[ccc1005]

I'm sure the GDF will eventually get around to taking action.

Or people can just get smart enough and avoid files like this. I usually wait until i ger a bunch of sources for a file, which makes it more likely to be the true thing. But I am sure the GDF has something in the works to fix this...

[moneoa]

They are just playing catch up guys.....Kazaa is smelly and dead and now it's ED2K's turn.
They will be about 2-3 years behind the most poular technology. in another year or two it will be ares.

[Atarius]

Ares is not free from fakes either, here's a pic I stole from a user with the same problem as me.

[napho]

Or people can just get smart enough and avoid files like this. I usually wait until i ger a bunch of sources for a file, which makes it more likely to be the true thing. But I am sure the GDF has something in the works to fix this...


Of course everyone knows these are fakes; but all the bad results and extra searches to try to get something legit generate unnecessary traffic for the network. Combined with the demoralizing effect, that'll hurt Gnutella at a time when it's recovered and prospered. We'll have to see if this is a trend or just an isolated file.

[John W. Lindh]

I see these on LimeWire too. PeerGuardian doesn't do anything to help.
I'm kind of working on a spam filter for these, but that's extremely tough since they don't appear to follow any consistent pattern. However, while these spammers will return results to a query for "chasing papi", they will (unlike regular gnutella clients) not return results to a query for "chasin pap". (The movie has not been released on gnutella, AFAICT).

If you want to try it, try "state of the union" and "stat o th unio", the first returns lots of spam, the second returns close to no spam at all.

[shawners]

What hurts it is that its a system built on no moderation.. Letting anyone or anything put rediculous amounts of crap on a network, use as many ISp and pcs to go to one source.. able to have these things boggle down the network with no action.. This is why these networks are failing and will continue to fail. They cant mod them, then it be another napster take down case.. Since it mean that its not decentralized.

[serrebi101]

are you guys talking about those results that are "yoursearchquary.jpg" and .wmv? I get those... anoying, but funny that anyone would ever dl them.
I'm blind here so images don't help.

[John W. Lindh]

They cant mod them, then it be another napster take down case..
There are ways to cope with spam similar to the way you can handle spam mails.

[nms04]

gnutella wont die so fast! i'm sure that developers will work on something to solve very security problem

[polu]

Of all the networks i have used gnutella is best